Category: Transport

Floating sawlogs through the Fenelon Locks

Sawlogs were common in navigable watercourses to the end of the nineteenth century, and made travel difficult for boats when they accumulated.

Piling Grounds to Subdivision

Row upon row of lumber at Mossom Boyd’s yard have become rows of houses at Bobcaygeon’s Port 32.

George Thompson’s Big Log Jam

This 1886 sketch shows R. C. Smith’s Red Mill on the left, opposite the village grist mill.

Kent Street, Lindsay

Kent Street, Lindsay

A Train Crash on Victoria Avenue

The railway once ran up the centre of this Lindsay street.

Lindsay Riverfront

The skyline where the Trent Valley Navigation Company’s Esturion once docked, is strikingly similar to its late nineteenth century predecessor.

W.G. Jackett & Sons reconstructing the Fenelon Lock

The original wooden lock required constant repair, it was rebuilt of stone in 1913 and concrete in 1963.

29 Oak Street

Former home of pharmacist Alvin Gould, it was painted blue by University of Toronto professor Joaquin Kuhn, then became known as the Blue Oak Bed and Breakfast

An Empire Vanished

The Steamer Ogemah in front of the Big House, Bobcaygeon. Mossom Boyd and his heirs owned the village of Bobcaygeon, founded one of Canada’s most successful timber businesses, […]

Bridge over Nogies Creek at the head of Pigeon Lake

Baddow Bridge

Community bridge over the Burnt River at the 3rd Concession of Somerville, Stony Lonesome School. The neighbourhood school was on the Baddow (west) side of the River, so […]